{"id":1429,"date":"2007-05-08T03:46:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-05-08T03:53:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:53:56","slug":"ali_ali_oxen_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Ali, Ali Oxen Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Eteraz, a Muslim commentator who is close to the epicenter of where Islamic thought in the West ought to be, and who is consistently interesting, is <a href=\"http:\/\/eteraz.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/07\/no-more-partisanship\/\" target=\"browser\">interesting again today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I always considered myself a humanist and do still. It just cannot be the case that only one &#8216;side&#8217; of a political divide have a monopoly on humanism. I know for a fact that Isaiah Berlin would not exactly be welcome in some parts of the left; nor Solzhenitsyn. [I also know that Burke would be ridiculed in some parts of the right]. I cannot in clean conscience engage against religious supremacism and exclusion if I engage in ideological supremacism and exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\nI believe in human solidarity. In the elimination of cruelty and humiliation. I believe in living beyond labels and identity markers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Welcome to the muddle in the middle, Ali.<\/b> Come pull up a comfortable chair and I&#8217;ll pour the drinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Eteraz is tired of labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}